Beyond Giving: How companies can use corporate philanthropy to build stronger, self-sustaining communities
By Sam Ogbemi Daibo For decades, the relationship between companies and their host communities in Nigeria has largely been defined by projects. A company builds a classroom, renovates a health centre, provides boreholes, awards scholarships or rehabilitates a road. These interventions can be valuable. They meet real needs and often improve lives. But after decades […]
Dangote Refinery: A plea for caution
I am very proud, as I always do home and abroad, to call myself a citizen of Nigeria, the blessed land of my forebears
N250,000 Minimum Wage: Were the Labour unions daydreaming?
By MUTIU OYINLOLA GLOBALLY, the number of people living in extreme poverty has increased following the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic amidst subdued economic growth. According to the World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2022 report, a total of 712 million people globally were living in extreme poverty in 2022, using the monetary extreme poverty […]
Understanding Nigeria’s democracy
By EZINWANNE ONWUKA AS I followed with keen interest the recent events in Kenya, where citizens took to the streets to voice their dissatisfaction with the government’s mismanagement, corruption, and political repression, I felt a sense of déjà vu. Nigeria has been down this path before. The struggles, the frustrations, and the public outcry for good […]
Our highways of sorrow
By NICK DAZANG SOME four weeks ago, this writer was privileged to be a participant at a two-day engagement with the broadcast media on the electoral process. It was organised by the Centre for Media and Society, CEMESO, at the Valencia Hotel, Wuse II. This writer was riveted by a conversation involving two participants who had […]
Yahaya Bello’s transformative impact in growing next generation of academics in Kogi – The uncelebrated visionary
Some individuals are so intentional about their actions that they often achieve remarkable results without seeking recognition
